by Olivia Baldacci
Celia Pain is a native New Yorker and a dual American/New Zealand citizen. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland, and her poetry has been published in the NZ Poetry Society’s 2024 anthology paint me. She currently lives in NYC, and passes out with joy when she sees people reading on public transit. (The resulting head injuries can explain a lot of her behavior.) Find her on X or Substack at @thefleetislate, or Instagram at @thefleetislate_poetry.
Olivia Baldacci (she/they) is a mixed-media artist based in New York. She is interested in exploring how media helps form our cultural norms, specifically our conceptions of identity in her work. Collage is her ideal format for this exploration as it utilizes real-world imagery that is intended to construct and reinforce norms. It allows her to interrogate these notions through the physical stripping and reshaping of images. Their work is intended to make some meaning from a constant influx of images and ideally help others deconstruct these seemingly mundane images, which wield power over our understanding of the world. IG:@olivia Baldacci
Website: oliviabaldacci.squarespace.com.